Excerpt from Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William M. Lowe, (a Representative From Alabama), Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Forty-Seventh Congress, Second Session

He married a Miss hianning, who was of a wealthy and intelli gent family. He was for many years president Of the State bank at Huntsville. He took an active part in politics, and was at one time a Presidential elector and supporter of General Jackson. In the later years of his life he was engaged in the commission busi ness in itqw' Orleans, where he became well known, as he was at home, for his ability as a. Financier, his high integrity, and public spirit. He died at his home in Huntsville in at the age Of 70 years, respected and honored by all who knew him. He left six children, three Sons and three daughters. Dr. John T. Lowe, who was chief surgeon of General Loring's division of the Confederate. Army during the late war, is an eminent physician. Robert J. Lowe, the next Oldest, was a lawyer, and represented h'iadisou County in the State legislature in 18-59 with signal abilitv for one so young. He attended the Baltimore convention, and was a warm supporter Of Breckinridge for the Presidency in 1860. Then Mr. Lincoln was elected he was fired with the spirit of secession, volunteered in the first company that left his county in 1861, and from the fatigue and exposure incident to camp life and the forced march of General Johnston to reach the first battle of Manassas, contracted typhoid fever, of which he died.

My late colleague, the youngest son, 'was the brightest and most intellectual of the inmates of that grand old homestead situated on one of the picturesque hills of the classic town of Huntsville. The father, justly proud of his fair-haired, bright - eved boy was so in dnlgent that the latter scarcely knew restraint. This too great but perhaps pardonable indulgence made its impression on the youthful mind, and, coupled with his native independence, so shaped the character of the man that he never could gracefully submit to a line of discipline opposed to his conviction or inclination.

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